Keeping Your Head in a Mixed and Mixed-up Church

It can be one of the most difficult and perplexing questions of the Christian life: What should be our response to those who depart from orthodox Christian faith and practice? Beyond our own personal commitment and devotion to the authority of scripture? What should be our personal and pastoral response to those within the Christian community who don’t share our same concern for the importance of biblical truth within the Christian community? When do we maintain fellowship, when do we not? When do we engage the controversy, when do we not? When do we stay, and for how long? And when do we go? In an atmosphere of widespread departures from the truth, these were questions that did and would confront young Timothy. And so Paul, the wise and experienced pastor, turned his pen to that important subject, providing solid spiritual council on both a healthy perspective and mature response to those who oppose or depart from biblical truth. This morning we’ll consider his important words in 2 Timothy 2:19-26, in a message entitled, “Keeping Your Head in a Mixed and Mixed-up Church”.